Amateur movie with Big budget

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,